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Sanctuary | Overview

Sanctuary (population: 152,623) is located on Caslona, the largest of the Three Sisters, Caslona features dense forests, a snow-capped mountain range which pierces the clouds and bisects the land, and a web of rivers and swamps which lead to a number of ports. Fish, wildlife, and edible plants are abundant. The mountains are rich in mineral ore and precious metals and gems. On the highest cliffs and mountain tops, there seem to be ancient castles fortresses, as well as stone structures left behind by the island’s mysterious first inhabitants. Few dare ascend as these farthest reaches require journeys into the darkest, most treacherous parts of the landscape. 

Beyond the walls of Sanctuary, Caslona houses a number of other notable settlements. In the immediate area of Sanctuary, one can find the small fishing village of Norwind to the north, the stone city of Ostegar to the southeast, and the Eldergreen, a mysterious woodland realm to the southwest. There are rumors of a great city empire far to the west whose people use strange magics and forbid the entrance of foreigners. 

City Layout & Neighborhoods

Sanctuary is divided into several regions which arrange themselves in concentric half-moon rings beginning closest to the port and expanding toward the island’s interior. The city’s wealth tends to concentrate in the Third and Fourth Rings which are higher and further inland, and are far from the crime, poverty, and disease that run rampant in The Waterfront district in the First Ring. The Second Ring with its markets and merchants, academies, guild halls, and middle-class residences acts as a buffer between established wealth of the nobles and clergy uphill and the destitution and misfortune of those trapped at the water’s edge.

Neighborhoods

  1. I – The Waterfront 
  2. II – The Bilge 
  3. II – Old Town
  4. II – Tosser’s Square
  5. II – The Field of Heroes
  6. II – The Greening
  7. II – Highmark
  8. II – The Shallows
  9. III – Windfast
  10. III – Riverglen
  11. III – The High Road
  12. III – Castleshade
  13. III – Silverfield
  14. III – The Breakers
  15. IV  – Greenshield
  16. IV – Castle
  17. IV – North Gate
  18. IV – East Hill
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